Test 7 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents
A Brummie mate goes "bostin', I got a twenty for me birthday!" ("Bostin'" means great.) How many £5 notes is a twenty worth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brummie mate, bostin · What happens: go, get, mean, be · To what, where: twenty, twenty worth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» of the money course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: A Brummie mate goes "bostin', I got a twenty for me birthday!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mate | det |
| 2 | Brummie | Brummie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | compound |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bostin | punct |
| 6 | bostin | bostin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 7 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 6 bostin | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 twenty | det |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 got | obl |
| 14 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a Brummie mate | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | bostin | a twenty | for me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent twenty=Beneficiary birthday=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: ("Bostin'" means great.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bostin | punct |
| 3 | Bostin | Bostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bostin | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bostin | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Bostin | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How many £5 notes is a twenty worth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 £ | amod |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 9 worth | nsubj |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 notes | nummod |
| 5 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 £ | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 worth | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 worth | det |
| 8 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 worth | nummod |
| 9 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 worth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a twenty worth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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